The annual New Zealand Alpine Journal (NZAJ) is NZAC's premiere publication; it is a record of the climbing year, a source for research and a forum for reflection. The NZAJ was first published in 1892 and is an extraordinary treasure of climbing and mountaineering history. It provides information and insights on decades of climbers and climbing, articles cover a wide range of topics such as reports on first ascents, descriptions of routes, scientific articles from geology, geography, surveying, biology, history, environmental management.

More than 17,500 pages needed to be scanned and turned into machine-readable text by automated text recognition. Ross Cullen from NZAC set up a crowd funding option on Givealittle, which accumulated the funds for getting the project started. Scanning generally worked well, but created some problems which required further work. For example, specks and blemishes from typesetting lead to text recognition errors. Or unique place or field names may confuse text recognition. Project editors at Innsbruck University and New Zealand volunteers crowd-corrected these errors to get a good and clean text.

On this platform the complete volumes of the New Zealand Alpine Journal are now available including extensive full-text search.

Content from New Zealand Alpine Journal NZAJ may be used for personal use only. Persons who wish to use any of the NZAJ content including text, photographs, maps, sketches for other than their own personal use, must obtain approval from the author or owner of the relevant article, photograph, map, or sketch. Please contact editor@alpineclub.org.nz to seek approval to use content from the NZAJ.

Thanks!

We would like to especially thank the volunteers and the generous donors who made this project possible!

Content from New Zealand Alpine Journal NZAJ may be used for personal use only. Persons who wish to use any of the NZAJ content including text, photographs, maps, sketches for other than their own personal use, must obtain approval from the author or owner of the relevant article, photograph, map, or sketch. Please contact editor@alpineclub.org.nz to seek approval to use content from the NZAJ.